#musicbrainz

CallerNo6: Thanks. So for now, "spoken vocals" for rappers?

myself, I just use "vocals"

mki_: good question. I think of that as being for non-musical stuff (audio books, podcasts, poetry).

so, yeah, what Lotheric said.

reoafk : http://www.terminal313.net/

derwin: :)

Going to bed now but some promising stuff in there, thanks :)

Night!

heh. I just noticed I have some songs with ETI "new live version". I should probably change that in MB.

well, then again, it will always be true relative to the release they're on I guess.

what's the rule for Japanese releases where the release itself has the title in English/Latin on front, back & spine but Amazon.jp lists it with a Japanese title? I would assume it should be the English one.

Go with whatever the cover art says

thought so. release existed in MB already but with the title from Amazon (and no discid so probably added based only on the amazon listing)

Amazon frequently gets details wrong

well, one thing matters of course, since this is a JP release: which wins, the OBI or the cover? the OBI has the Japanese version on the spine, and the english on the front

Is this by a Western artist?

no

it's a game soundtrack

I'd go with the front cover either way

ok

Obis tend to have Japanese text on them so shoppers in a store can read what the disc is if they don't know English text

should I treat the release artist the same way? soundtrackstyle would have me not file the release under the composer (sice he's not mentioned on the frot/spine). OBI does list him on the front, but in latin script. So file under the composer but AC as the latin name?

Do you have more than the front cover?

I'd only use a Latin AC if he's credited that way inside the booklet

booklet has him that way too

in fact, the page with the release credits is entirely in english

making life unusually easy for me in addig the ARs

Normally I stick with Japanese text in that case, but you'll have to ask someone more experienced than me

I normally reserve Latin artist names for releases released outside of Japan

how to use publisher relationship? it's good for recording only or releases are ok too?

Normally I put it on works

If it's listed on the back of the release, list it on the release level

I have datasheet

Not sure what that is

which every recording have a publicher column

Is it up on the Cover Art Archive or somewhere where I can see it?

but i added as a release publisher

nope sorry. can't find cover art

You might be confusing recording with work

Often, when tracks are broken down on a release, it lists publishers nest to songwriters

when i look this http://musicbrainz.org/label/c91dcf19-5ec2-4c30...

i see most people use at recording level and work level

A lot of people make the same mistake

The publisher relationship is mostly meant for works

In rarer cases, it might be applicable to a release

well, i understand now

going to use for works

thanks HibiscusKazeneko

no problem

a lot of people get confused on this issue

even I did at one point

any frankophone peoples? https://beta.musicbrainz.org/release/e65fb2f4-a... probably needs french caps fix

should Radio be capitalised as in “!@#$% (Radio This and That)”? I think it should, but guess case guessed lowercase, hence the question.

simukis_: yes

guess case thinks it's extra title info (like "(remix)" and the like.

musicbrainz edit listings look really terrible on my android phone

is this normal?

some text is really tiny while other text is gigantic

I am adding a release: http://www.amazon.com/Dishkiyaoon-Ganjawala-Kha...

Should i keep the (feat. artist) part in the title of the songs?

The 7th song also contains [REMIX] in title, is that okay?

has dufferzafar read http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style/Titles/Featur... ?

No i havent. Sorry. Thanks.

what about the latter? Remix?

the style guidelines are only easy to find when you're already familiar with them and know more-or-less what you're looking for :-)

Remix is OK

Although it's preferred as (remix)

[REMIX] would be "extra title information", which is covered @ http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style/Titles/Extra_...

CallerNo6: I've Bookmarked this.

Why is it so that adding a new release does not need any approval (wrt Votes and such) but editing a release does?

it does need a vote of approval, if it gets no votes it will be removed

Oh. That does make sense.

I was surprised by the fact that as soon as i added it, it was available to public

dufferzafar1: think of it this way: the more (potentially) destructive an edit is, the more oversight it needs.

('destructive' meaning 'good data might be lost')

Shouldn't there be an option to import CDs from Amazon (URL maybe) when adding a release?

There could be a userscript

I suspect actually adding code for it might go against some terms or others

The toughest part is copying and pasting (and knowing that this could al have been automated)

as in Amazon's terms?

Yes

reosarevok: A userscript could scrape data from Amazon's URL and fill entries on the MB page?

Well there is one for iTunes

(but iTunes has an API)

link?

Also, Will it still violate terms if i create a script?

oh, what he said ^^